【推荐2】Sometimes a seemingly unimportant option can mean the difference between life and death. For Dan Magennis this _______ was deciding to call Comcast before starting his yard work.

The elder from Walker, Michigan knows if he hadn't _______ that call, he might not be here today. All he _______ was to fix an issue with his cable. What he got _______ was his own savior (救命恩人) — from 800 miles away.

Dan called the company, hoping to get it over with quickly. But _______ had he just connected Kimberly Williams, a customer service _______ when he found he couldn't speak after _______ his name. Then his right leg went numb (麻木的). He began _______ and dropped the phone. “I would try to say something, and I just couldn't," Dan said. “Soon I _______ maybe it was a stroke (中风), but I wasn't able to tell the representative that.” But Kimberly already knew something was ________. Slurred (口齿不清的) speech was something she'd become ________ as a teenager when she ________ her grandmother suffering a stroke. She also knew every second ________.

She immediately opened Google to ________ for first responders in Dan's area. Several calls later, she got in touch with the Walker Fire Department and stayed on the ________ with Dan for five minutes before the rescuers arrived.

Not even an hour after the call was placed, Dan was ________ with surgery at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital. Two days later, he walked out of the hospital with almost no lingering (迟迟不去的) ________. Dr Justin Singer, director at Spectrum Health, says things would have ________ very different were it not for Kimberly's quick ________.

Dan says he'll be ________ forever that Kimberly, whom he's never met, didn't hang up. It is thanks to her that he's still walking, speaking, and living independently.

【推荐3】Alexis Lewis, a 7-year-old girl, set out with her family on a trip to explore different parts of the country. During the hours on the road, her grandfather, a rocket scientist, would_________cool ideas with Alexis about science. Eventually, everything her grandfather said_________Alexis to become a (n)_________.

Fast forward to the 2017 Kid Inventors' Day event_________on January 17 in Brooklyn, New York. Alexis 17, was one of the seven kid inventors who attended the_________. With an audience of 50 people in_________and more than many others watching on Facebook Live, Alexis_________her award-winning invention, the Bamboo Travois. It is a lightweight device made of bamboo, a net rope_________wheels. A person can use the travois to carry someone else while walking long_________.

Alexis also____________another one of her inventions: the emergency Mask Pod. It is a football-shaped canister (小罐) that____________a smoke mask and can be thrown____________the of a____________building. People inside the building can put on the mask to____________themselves from smoke inhalation (吸入).____________firefighters helped her test the____________by throwing it hundreds of times into windows of second-storey buildings.

The world____________new thinkers like Alexis and other young inventors who____________the event. Kids are the ones who can solve the____________that the older generation creates. It's our job as adults to show kids the possibilities of____________they can make and create.

【推荐1】Joseph Salmon, 17, was practising ice fishing with his mom on a lake in Iowa. Suddenly, Salmon saw a jeep, driven by an old man, Thomas Lee, _________ the ice and into the water. As soon as Salmon saw it a short distance away, he called 911 and ran over to help. For a(n) _________, he was right standing on the _________.

Then another young man waved at Lee and tried to _________ to him to get out of the jeep. However, it seemed that Lee, _________, didn’t really know what to do next, just sitting on the seat. _________, he couldn’t move at all.

Things looked extremely _________. As Salmon and the young man became _________ in face of the emergency, more people came. Then someone found there was an animal in the jeep. Salmon immediately jumped into the _________, got to the jeep and tried opening the back door. It was locked, and he had to __________ the back window and __________ to get Lee out, whose foot was __________ because of being caught between the center console (控制台) and the seat. So Salmon gently pushed Lee back towards the front. Just then, four more passers-by __________ over to help pull Lee and his dog to safety.

Finally, the rescue workers arrived. Lee was transported to a nearby hospital. Neither he nor his dog was injured while Salmon was only treated for a minor __________ from the broken glass. How __________ they were!

【推荐2】I went with some colleagues for dinner in a very popular local restaurant. It was ________ business time and the restaurant was crowded.

As we were waiting for a table, we heard a crash when a cleaning boy________the floor with all the plates he was carrying. There was ________ and no one was saying or doing anything. In a flash I remembered my ________ many years ago. At one time, I ________ when I was on business. I had a high fever but luckily was taken care of by two ________. Then this was my chance to ________ it forward.

I had learned some first-aid lessons before, so I ran to the boy’s side________, turned him on his back and screamed for someone to ________ a hot drink. The boy soon opened his eyes,________ what had happened. And so I ________ him by saying it was OK. I held the warm drink to his mouth till he________ it. At that time the manager arrived, who was kind enough to look after the boy. By the time all this was over, we hadn’t________anything yet, and we decided to go home.

I slowly walked home, not hungry any more, feeling________for the opportunity to pay forward the _______ I had received many years ago.

【推荐1】Many years ago, when we first went to Canada, we were driving through Montana to Colorado with our two children, then aged 8 and 11. As it was getting late we started looking for a hotel, only to find out that all the hotels were_______.

Finally, around 9 o'clock in the evening, we stopped at a_______ to fill up on petrol. My husband asked for a _______ and told the woman at the counter that we were trying to find a hotel. When he was _______, the woman, Linda, said she and her family _______ nearby and would be happy if we spent the night at her home.

She called her son to direct us, _______ she had to hold the fort at the gas station till midnight. When we reached their home, her husband _______ us. He invited us to have coffee and chat while we _______ for his wife. She came back after midnight. We asked if we could _______ in the morning so as not to disturb them. They said we were now guests and we would have to have ________ with them.

In the morning we woke up to a table set for breakfast. Around the table were many of their________and friends. We ate breakfast, and when we were leaving, my husband asked if he could offer some ________.

They would not hear of it and ________ we were their guests. We left touched by their spirit of hospitality and we were amazed that they would ________a family of total strangers from a different country. Over the years, we lost touch, but we have never forgotten their ________.

【推荐2】Sometimes, we have difficulty in understanding others^’ view about the world. _______ , I heard a funny story about _______ the other day.

A( n) _______ named John was known for his _______ view about the role of the teacher. One of the other lecturers arrived at work on that morning and _______ the main lecture theatre on the way to his class. He _______ to glance in and saw John giving a lecture in the room, John was gesturing _______ and eagerly writing on the board. But when the other lecturer looked around the theatre, it was totally _______ . He was a little concerned about John's sanity(神志)， _______ he decided to talk about the ________ gently at morning tea later on.

"John," he said , "I saw you teaching in the lecture theatre this morning. But I noticed there didn't seem to be any students."

"Yes, that's right. ________ turned up, John replied with a smile.

“But you were ________ teaching,” the other man said, waiting for some ________ Sure enough,"John replied, “Well, they ________ me to teach, and thafs what I was doing!

"It was at this moment," the other lecturer told me, "That I realized teaching and ________are two separate things. ”

People's attitude to the whole world are ________ . That's where metaprograms (元程序)come in. When we ________ people around, we'll also notice that some people are different in the same way. These same differences are metaprograms, and I think they are very useful for all types of ________ . When we are trying to communicate, we are toying to ________ communication channels and take part in communication, not necessarily trying to ________ others or accept another person's values.

【推荐3】Casey and John, a young couple, had been driving from Maryland to North Carolina when their 36-hour nightmare began. They expected the road trip to ________ five hours, but a massive snowstorm led to ice-related ________, and the state closed a 50-mile stretch of the ________ for safety reasons.

With traffic stopped and no clear information on when the highway would ________, some drivers abandoned their cars and set out on foot. Others, like Casey and Joe, turned off the ________ to save gas and seated themselves in their vehicles. They tried their best to stay warm.

A cold night in hunger and little sleep left them feeling ________. After 21 hours of suffering, Casey ________ a bread delivery truck among the waiting vehicles. On a sudden inspiration, she called Schmidt Baking Company, the owner of the truck She left a ________ on the company’ s customer service line, asking if the truck driver could ________ the baked goods with troubled drivers. She didn’t know if they would take her request ________, but she wanted to try.

Her idea worked.   Incredibly, Schmidt CEO Chuck personally returned Casey’ s call within 20 minutes. He asked her to hand her ________ to the company truck driver, Ron, and then directed Ron to ________ the bread to the people on the highway.

Casey, John and Ron were excited to pass out the bread along the ________ highway to as many people as possible. Among those to ________ the food were elderly passengers and families with children. They all felt incredibly thankful for the offering of food and some ________ after so many hours waiting in the cold.